Probot
self titled
Southern Lord 2004
By Nathan Pearce
What is Southern Lord doing releasing this? In case youve been hiding under your moms bed, Probot is Dave Grohls metal side project. Yes, thats correct. Dave Grohl of, most notably, Foo Fighters and some band called Nirvana.
Probot is basically Dave Grohls music (he plays all instruments on this) with the vocals of several BIG names in metal. Heres a list of the vocalists he was able to recruit:
Cronos
Max Cavalera
Lemmy
Mike Dean
Kurt Brecht
Lee Dorian
Wino
Tom G. Warrior
Snake
Eric Wagner
King Diamond
Kim Thayil, Erol Unala, Bubba Dupree, Lemmy, Cronos, and Wino also contribute their respective instruments to various songs.
Are you impressed yet? Well, I have to admit I was a little skeptical about this. Dave Grohl has created some great music with Foo Fighters, Nirvana, and Queens of the Stone Age, but what could he possibly know about METAL???
Apparently he knows a lot! Somehow Dave Grohl is able to make each song fit the vocalist in question perfectly. Red War, with Max Cavalera on vocals, sounds like something right off Chaos A.D. Its a little too slow to be from any early Sepultura album. Ice Cold Man, with Lee Dorian on vocals, is sort of a more stoner version of Cathedral. Sweet Dreams, with the almighty King Diamond on vocals, is chilling, and its down right scary how much this sounds like something straight from King Diamonds B-sides.
Now Im sure people will have their gripes about Dave Grohl not having a style of his own on this, but that isnt exactly the point. He, in fact, has a sound and style that is consistent throughout the album, but because each vocalist is so original in their style, Dave Grohl comes off sounding like he wrote each song specifically for the intended vocalist. That is not the case, however. It is a testament to the vocalists on this album, that each songs sounds like one of their own.
8/10
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self titled
Southern Lord 2004
By Nathan Pearce
What is Southern Lord doing releasing this? In case youve been hiding under your moms bed, Probot is Dave Grohls metal side project. Yes, thats correct. Dave Grohl of, most notably, Foo Fighters and some band called Nirvana.
Probot is basically Dave Grohls music (he plays all instruments on this) with the vocals of several BIG names in metal. Heres a list of the vocalists he was able to recruit:
Cronos
Max Cavalera
Lemmy
Mike Dean
Kurt Brecht
Lee Dorian
Wino
Tom G. Warrior
Snake
Eric Wagner
King Diamond
Kim Thayil, Erol Unala, Bubba Dupree, Lemmy, Cronos, and Wino also contribute their respective instruments to various songs.
Are you impressed yet? Well, I have to admit I was a little skeptical about this. Dave Grohl has created some great music with Foo Fighters, Nirvana, and Queens of the Stone Age, but what could he possibly know about METAL???
Apparently he knows a lot! Somehow Dave Grohl is able to make each song fit the vocalist in question perfectly. Red War, with Max Cavalera on vocals, sounds like something right off Chaos A.D. Its a little too slow to be from any early Sepultura album. Ice Cold Man, with Lee Dorian on vocals, is sort of a more stoner version of Cathedral. Sweet Dreams, with the almighty King Diamond on vocals, is chilling, and its down right scary how much this sounds like something straight from King Diamonds B-sides.
Now Im sure people will have their gripes about Dave Grohl not having a style of his own on this, but that isnt exactly the point. He, in fact, has a sound and style that is consistent throughout the album, but because each vocalist is so original in their style, Dave Grohl comes off sounding like he wrote each song specifically for the intended vocalist. That is not the case, however. It is a testament to the vocalists on this album, that each songs sounds like one of their own.
8/10
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